Coil

news 2002

December 12th, 2002

It seems that attendees at Coil's show in Moscow this past September were
given a free VHS video of Coil's previous performance in Moscow on Sptember 15,
2001. The video was produced and released by
Feelee, the same folks behind
the Russian compilation discs released last year. There are rumours of a DVD
edition existing as well. We hope to get the official story about this release
soon.

John Balance made an appearance recently on the Solar Lodge channel on
Soulseek and revealed news
about some upcoming/planned releases & events. Here are the relavent
excerpts:

"Just putting the finishing touches on our collaborative with the
Cyclobe boys. Should be available in a month or two. Thighpaulsandra's album is
shaping up nicely and should also be finished before march of next year.

"Also: We may be doing another one-off in New York early next year,
opening for us will be
Bablicon - young brain sizzlers, gelled krautrock... amazing.
We hope to conquer California sometime soon as well. We're hoping to meet up
with Dr.Dre and persuade him to mix our next album. What do you think?

"[Performing live in] Canada is a possibility; speaking of which -
We've been in contact/communication/reciprocation with the lads from Boards of
Canada. Our extreme appreciation for each other's work is mutual. Something may
also come out of that in the near future.. Again, it's all in the aether.

"We definately will not be touring again due to promotion, inner
complications and other nonsense. If you want us to come to your city you'll
have to lure us over. :-)"

November 21st, 2002

Coil's Threshold
House mail order website has been updated to include information for a
series of four live albums which will be released in January, 2003. In addition
to being available as four stand-alone releases, a special edition featuring
all four albums plus a bonus disc will be available in a limited edition of 123
copies, 111 of which are available now via pre-order.

They are also holding an informal poll/survey to see how viable it would be
for them to offer paid downloads of live shows, demo tracks, etc.
Click
here for full details.

Coming next week via World Serpent:

Coil  The World Ended a Long Time Ago  watch
Black Sun face with the following text written around the outer face of the
watch: 'THE WORLD ENDED A LONG TIME AGO'. The watch comes in the now classic
Coil clear strap and is housed in a black case. Limited to 100.

November 2nd, 2002

Due to a sudden tightening of security at Italian border crossings in
advance of an upcoming Social European Forum in Florence,
Black Sun
Productions have decided to cancel their performance of the Plastic Spider
Thing ritual that was to take place in Milano on November 4th. Here is their
full statement on the matter:

Zurich, 2nd November 2002

What we heard from the italian e-newspaper
Repubblica.it (and
reported also from German internet news) forces us to the sad decision to
cancel our performance scheduled in Milano for Monday November 4. We sincerely
apologize with those who have worked to organize the event (especially Andrea
Amici of Teatro I', Ango Visone of Pornflakes, Flavio Magnani of Speed Demon
and Lisa Tavazzani) and those who kindly reserved tickets for the performance.

Who writes to you has chosen to live and to work away from Italy as a result
of the facts of Genoa of last year. Massimo & Pierce, DraZen and all the
persons who gravitate around Black Sun Productions share a radical artistic
militancy and an anarchist cultural, if not political, personal position. The
vision of a European democratic (?) country that, once again, suspends
international treaties and rejects European citizens to its own frontiers make
us sad and frightened us. The way we look, the stuff that we carry with us to
stage our performance (among which chains, army outfits and white overalls) and
our antagonist attitude make out of us the police's perfect target in such a
scenario.

We are enormously sorry to disregard to our engagement and to miss the
possibility to return to perform in Milano but we are sure of your
understanding: our personal histories and the radical nature of our
performances are enough to make us believe that we would be rejected from the
Italian border police (like already happened yesterday to some
"lawless-men" rejected to the Italian frontier of Ventimiglia). We
are sure that nobody of you has forgotten about the horrible prison-odessey
happened to an Austrian street-theater-group last July in Genoa. Please, don't
blame us if we don't feel like to take the risk.

Massimo & Pierce, Drazen
Black Sun Productions

October 19th, 2002

Coil are currently in the middle of a European tour. In addition to the
previously announced dates, there is apparently an impromptu concert taking
place tonight (October 19th) in Stockholm, Sweden.

This tour was originally planned to end with two shows in Italy on November
1th & 2th, but it appears that the final stop will now be in Vienna on
October 29th. However, it is rumoured that Coil will be joining
Black Sun
Productions on stage at their November 4th performance of the Plastic
Spider Thing ritual at Teatro
I' in Milano.

Released this past week via
World Serpent was
The Golden Hare with a Voice of Silver, a double CD set that brings
together the two Coil anthology discs - A Guide for Beginners: A Silver
Voice and A Guide for Finishers: Golden Hair - originally released
last year by Feelee Records
in Russia.

Another upcoming Coil-releated release is X-Rated: The Electronic
Files, a double CD compilation due out in early November on the Dutch label
Boudisque Recording.
Compiled by the people behind the X-Rated radio program heard weekly in
Kink-FM, the disc features
an excerpt from "Remote Viewing 1", a track originally available on
the limited The Remote Viewer CDR sold by Coil on their Spring, 2002
tour. Other artists on the set include Lustmord, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Scanner,
Tangerine Dream, Atom Heart and many more. An extensive website about this
release can be found at http://www.boudisque.nl/xrated/

A new Coil tribute CD project is also in the works. Entitled Aural
Mechanism, it will be released in an edition of 300 copies with the first
33 including a bonus CD3". Visit
Molecule
Records for more information.

September 25th, 2002

Plans are being finalized for a European tour in late October and early
November. These shows are in addition to previously announced late
September/early October dates in Russia, Greece and the UK (visit the
Live page for further info).

Coil will be joined at all dates by DraZen, Massimo & Pierce of
Black Sun
Productions, who will also be performing their 12th Plastic Spider Thing
ritual at Teatro I' in Milano, Italy on Novermber 4th. Black Sun Productions
promises "special guests" at this performance...

David Keenan's long-awaited book on Coil, Current 93 and Nurse With Wound
entitled England's Hidden Reverse is set for publication soon.
SAF Publishing
reports a release date of January 2003, while online booksellers like Amazon
are reporting November 2002. Whichever proves to be true, the book will be a
256 page hardcover retailing for £35.00/US$45.00, and it will be a limited
numbered edition with each copy including a CD of previously unreleased
material.

You can also use
this link to Bublos.comto compare the price of the book at
some of the sellers listed above plus many others to find the best deal.

August 19th, 2002

The following album was released today:

Coil  Plastic Spider Thing  CD  ESKATON 30

Coil and World
Serpent are pleased to present the Plastic Spider Thinga ritual work
remixed from past Coil albums by DraZen of
Black Sun
Productions.

Musick for the Performancoid Installation in 23 Parts, the 'Plastic Spider
Thing'.

This work was created as the soundtrack to a ritual sex performance by
Massimo and Pierce of Black Sun Productions, Zurich.

Radical young artists, fetish club owners and experienced male sex-workers
since their teens, Massimo and Pierce recently began an extensive and ongoing
collaboration with Coil on their European tour.

They will also be appearing with Coil live on the next section of their tour
in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe between 15 and 31 October.

Pierce and Massimo are notorious in their own countries for their
extraordinarily raw and truthful artworks and highly charged appearances, as
well as for their SexClub which, even in the tolerant Swiss city of Zurich, is
still frequently raided as a result of claims of deviant or lurid sexual
activity. Bravery, sedition and scandal accompany the pair wherever they decide
to travel and work.

Their latest performance 'Plastic Spider Thing' is a highly moral yet
sexually explicit exploration into the relationship between the spider and the
fly.

A soundtrack was commissioned from DraZen, the third member of their Black
Sun artistic collective, who used loops and mutated fragments of numerous Coil
works to produce this multi-levelled 'dronewerk'; by turns dark slabs of 'Time
Machines'-style electronica and inspirational fluid soundscapes that suggest
ideas and shapes while remaining mutable.

Coil themselves heard 'Plastic Spider Thing' for the first time whilst
receiving a demonstration of various pieces of bondage machinery at a private
ceremony at Massimo and Pierce's Club in Zurich.

Perhaps unsurprisingly under those circumstances, they were so impressed by
the work that they immediately agreed to release it on their own Eskaton label.

'Plastic Spider Thing' is a subtle work of pulse-pieces and dream waves,
spherical severities, manipulated syntax, words and sensation that makes the
perfect accompaniment to any dark and extended personal excursion into the
time-space playground.

'Sleep is better than Prayer'AOS

August 14th, 2002

Russian promoters and record label
Feelee will be welcoming Coil
back to their country for two concerts this autumn. The shows will be taking
place in Moscow (Sept 26th at DK Gorbunova) and Kaliningrad (Sept 29th at a
venue t.b.a.). Opening both shows will be CoH.

August 12th, 2002

Coil have been announced as being the support act at the London date on the
upcoming tour by Icelandic group
Sigur Rós. It
will be taking place on Tuesday, October 1st at
Royal Festival Hall. Tickets
are available online via
this
link. It's not known at this time if Coil will be appearing on any other
dates of the tour, but as soon as we find out, it'll be posted here.

July 25th, 2002

Coil have been confirmed to performing at next year's UK edition of the
All Tomorrow's
Parties music festival. The festival is being curated by Autechre, and is
taking place on the weekend of April 4th-6th 2003 at Camber Sands Holiday
Centre. Other artists on the bill for the weekend include Aphex Twin, The Fall,
Jim O'Rourke, Pita, Venetian Snares, Andrea Parker, Gescom, Bola and many more.
Visit the ATP
website for more info and to purchase tickets.

July 21st, 2002

Beta-Lactam Ring
Recordings have posted an MP3 excerpt from Coil's upcoming 10" release
on the label, The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence.
Click here to download it (6.2 meg). An excerpt from the
track can also be found on Beta-beat 01, a CD-R compilation of
tracks/excerpts from all of the releases in BLRRs "Lactamase"
10" series. The compilation can be purchased via their website for $2.

Russia's Feelee Records
have issued a second pressing of the Coil anthology releases A Guide for
Beginners - A Silver Voiceand A Guide for Finishers - Golden Hair.
Originally released in editions of 1000 copies each to coincide with Coil's
September, 2001 performance in Moscow, they are now available again in second
editions of 500 copies each.

July 1st, 2002

The four hour Coil special which aired on
Dutch National Radio
last year will be re-broadcast on
NPS Radio 4 on the
night of July 14th/morning of July 15th between 0:00 and 04:00 GET. The special
features an extensive interview, rare tracks and a full recording of Coil's
performance at The Paradiso in Amsterdam in June, 2001. A playlist from the
original broadcast can found
here, and a live net feed of NPS Radio 4 can be heard
here.

June 17th, 2002

Tickets are now on sale for the Megalithomania! event that Coil is appearing
at in October. Here is the info courtesy of
Strange
Attractor...

Megalithomania! tickets are available by post only from:

3rd Stone
PO Box 961
Devizes
Wiltshire
SN10 2TS
United Kingdom

Payment can be made with a cheque for £20.00 per ticket made out to
'3rd Stone'.

Credit/debit payments (Visa and Mastercard only) are also possible; you will
need to send us your card number, the name on your card and the card's expiry
date.

Overseas ticket applications will be billed at £20.00 each and
converted to local currency on your statement.

US Megalithomaniacs may make payment with a US$ cheque for 35.00 drawn on a
US bank. Tickets and additional information will be despatched in mid August.

If you would like confirmation of your booking on receipt of your order
please include a SASE.

(Scroll down or click here to view venue & line-up
info for Megalithomania!).

"For those who missed the extraordinary sold out Play evening in
London, it will be travelling slowly around the globe, beginning in Italy. Set
in a stunning medieval fortress in Fano in the Marche region, the show will
feature Coil, Mouse on Mars and myself presenting new work focusing on the
influence of computer games."

The date for the Fano, Italy show is Sunday, July 28th, as part of
Il
Violino e la Selce, an annual festival of contemporary music.

MP3s of two Coil live performances (Paradiso in Amsterdam, June 1st 2001 and
New Forms III Festival in Den Haag, June 7th 2002), as well as a 4 hour Coil
special aired on Dutch radio last year, are now available for download at
http://coil.vanleeuwen.to. Visitors
will be asked a couple of skill-testing questions to test their Coil knowledge
before being granted access to the site.

May 5th, 2002

Here is the official announcement regarding the Megalithomania event that
will feature a performance by Coil:

A collaboration between
Third Stone
magazine and Strange
Attractor, Megalithomania will be an all day celebration of sacred sites
and standing stones as expressed through art, folklore, history and
archaeology.

The day will hear talks by
John Michell,
Paul Devereux,
Iain Sinclair and several other specialists in history,
archaeology and folklore. We'll also be screening archival films and exhibiting
photography and installations from the
Circlemakers and other
landscape-inspired artists.

Tickets are for the whole day only, priced at £20. These are not yet on
sale. However, if you would like to receive more information, please email us
on megalithomania@mac.com and we'll
let you know as soon as tickets are available. Speaker details and further info
will be available soon at
www.strangeattractor.co.uk

Other live news direct from Balance:

We play den Haag on June 7th. A "Ritual" themed festival (New
Forms III presented by Paard Op
Hol). We are planning an ANAL communion cup and wafers. Transfiguration.
Alongside Julian Cope. Pagans are GO! Thighpaulsandra is back aboard the
mothership too, hurray! And we will have our
Zürich Black
Sun Pan Dancers Pierce Caliban Cock and Massimmo along too, so a full on
live onslaught, hopefully.

Russia again - Moscow and St. Petersburg - and probably Krakow, Poland, and
Stockholm too in September/October this year. Plans for USA Spring 2003 but we
desperately need a reliable promoter!!! Can anyone help??? And then Mexico,
Brazil and South America after that. And a full COIL 6 hour event at the
Shepherds Bush Empire in London as soon as we can get slotted in.

An interview feature with Coil is being broadcast today at 3 PM and 9 PM
local time on Danish national radio. The feature will be available online
starting tomorrow at www.dr.dk/kronometer.

April 3rd, 2002

The European tour is underway and reviews & reports from the inital
shows have been favourable. A CDR of new material entitled The Remote
Viewer is being sold at shows on the tour. It features three tracks
("Remote Viewing 1", "Remote Viewing 2", "Remote
Viewing 3") and is limited to 500 copies.

The long out-of-print second album by Queen Elizabeth, a mid-90s
collaboration between Thighpaulsandra and Julian Cope, has been reissued. It is
entitled Queen Elizabeth 2: Elizabeth Vagina and is highly recommended
for fans of Thighpaulsandra's solo work. Visit Cope's
Head Heritage website
for further info.

March 29th, 2002

Coil will be appearing live at the New Forms 2002 Festival, presented by
Paard Op Hol at
Theater aan het
Spui in Den Haag, The Netherlands on June 7th and 8th. Other artists on the
bill include Von Magnet, Biosphere, Christian Fennesz, Hazard, Little Axe
(featuring Doug Wimbish, Skip McDonald, Keith Leblanc and Adrian Sherwood),
John Wozencroft, Hector Alveilos and more. Tickets will be on sale as of
Tuesday, April 7th at the Theater - visit their
website for more
information.

March 10th, 2002

Coil's direct mail order and information site
Threshold House has
been updated to include a list of confirmed European/UK live dates for March
and April. They can also be seen in the Live section of this site. The band
line-up for these shows will feature Balance, Sleazy, Ossian Sex-Shop (Simon
Norris of Cyclobe), Cliff Stapleton (hurdy gurdy) and Michael York (Breton
pipes, etc), and they will feature a "new set, new costumes, new
projections and all sorts of other tricks".

Also announced on the site is a clear vinyl edition of the recent double LP
pressing of Time Machines,
limited to 100 signed copies of which 55 are available for sale.

Balance recently mentioned on the Coil list that they may be recording with
Kawabata Makoto of Acid
Mothers Temple in the not-too-distant future. They are also planning a new
publishing imprint called The North Tower which will launch with a book of
writings by Angus
MacLise, a founding member of The Velvet Underground who is described bt
Balance as "a liminal genius and, alongside such people as Ira Cohen,
largely and unjustly semi-neglected".

Updates and upgrades to the discography
section of this site which began in earnest late last year have been on-hold
for the past few months, but we hope to get the process rolling again soon.

February 16, 2002

Today is John Balance's 40th birthday. Best wishes to him, and many happy
returns!

February 13, 2002

Tour agents IBD are
reporting that the April 2nd Coil show reported below has been moved from
Bielefeld, Germany to Gent, Belgium at a venue called Vooruit. Visit the
Live section of the site for a full
list of planned dates.

Music by Coil was used as the soundtrack for the first installment in a four
part TV series called Masters of Darkness which premiered this week on Channel
4 in the UK. Each episode features a profile of a different notorious
historical figure - the first was on Rasputin, and future installments will
profile Aleister Crowley, the Marquis de Sade and Dr. John Dee. Those who saw
the Rasputin episode report that some of the music sounded unfamiliar, but it
hasn't been confirmed by Coil whether or not any unreleased material was used
for the soundtrack. It's also unclear if Coil will be heard on the other three
installments.

February 3, 2002

According to booking agency
IBD, another date has
been tentatively added to Coil's planned European tour in March/April:

Apr 02: Bielefeld, Germany - Forum

Previously announced dates for the tour can be found below, and in the Live
section of the site.

In addition, more information has been announced regarding Coil's
performance in Limoges, France on March 30th. They will be appearing as part of
a three day electronic/experimental music festival called
Artooz 2002,
which will also feature Étant Donnés, Michael Gira, Genesis
P-Orridge, Pan sonic, Ammo and more. Visit the
festival website
for more information.

January 28, 2002

The double LP edition of Time
Machines is released this week. Here is the info as provided by
World Serpent:

Coil  Time Machines DBL LP.5021958497013. ESKATON 28.
First released on the CD format in January 1998 Time Machines and now made
available as a limited double vinyl LP. Time Machines consists of four tones to
facilitate time travel. This album is limited to 1,000 copies only.

On March 18th, a double CD compilation entitled Rough Trade Shops -
Electronic 01 with be released via
Mute Records. It will include
the Elph vs Coil track "Ended" (as taken from
Worship The Glitch), alongside
tracks from Aphex Twin, Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Fennesz, Pan Sonic,
Autechre and many more.

January 21, 2002

Another message from Balance clarifying Thighpaulsandra's
"departure" from Coil:

We HAD BEEN promised, assured that we had secured the unique and valuable
services for our touring band of Thighpaulsandra, Martin Schallard and Tom
Edwards, all of whom play with Spiritualized. We checked, and checked, and
re-confirmed these delicate corporate operated manoeuvers again and again. Now
we hear, having confirmed our COIL European dates, that the three are still
waiting to hear from Jason Spaceman/Spiritualized when he would be needing them
again, and that they could no longer come with us. What were we to do but seek
new touring members.

I STILL WANT THIGHPAULSANDRA IN COIL. He has saved both my life and my
sanity many times. He is indispensible. He has not been fired. I LOVE HIM and
want whatever is best for him. I hope Threshold House will be releasing the new
album by him in the future.

Once we get over the disappointment of not being able to play with him live
we hope to continue to work together in other ways.

January 19, 2002

A brief news update from Balance:

Thighpaulsandra has left COIL choosing to work with Spiritualized instead.
It's terrible. We want him back.

Anal album due (on Eskaton) 2nd week in Feb, It's called I Am
Newport. Flourescent limited LP and CD. Newport is Jody's home town in
Wales.To be followed in 2 months by a live album called Kiss Me
Ringland.

We have completed three extra tracks for the CDR special edition of
Moon's Milk (In Four Phases). One is an unpublished poem by Angus
MacLise set to musick. No titles yet.

The poet Jeremy Read is coming to Threshold House soon to help me assemble
the COIL complete lyric book entitled "The Dreamer Is Still Asleep".
We hope to get it out around midsummer.

January 11, 2002

The Barbican, an arts
and conference centre in London, UK, are reporting on
their website that Coil will be appearing live along with
Mouse On Mars and Plaid for a special computer game themed evening on April
27th. Here is the info they have posted:

"Computer games have long held a fascination for synth mavericks, from
the Yellow Magic Orchestras celebration of Space Invaders to the chemical
Brothers PlayStation soundtracks. This commission invites three
exploratory electronica duos - oddball, highly English Gothic techno veterans
Coil; warp-signed electro abstracters Plaid; and Colognes digital funk
pairing Mouse on Mars to come and play. The event sees all three acts reworking
original scores and composing new work as they accompany large screen edited
graphics of computer games."

As with the European tour listed below, this event has yet to be confirmed
by Coil themselves, but as soon as we get official word, it'll be posted.

January 3, 2002

Happy new year!

According to their European booking agency
IBD, Coil are booked to
play the following dates this spring: